Word: hopelessness
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Along with the successes, he acknowledges a number of defeats. "I lost with Nikita Khrushchev, but there was so much hysteria attendant on his appearance that it was hopeless. My office was picketed, my children were threatened with reprisals...." He feels he also lost with V. Krishna Menon ("so disrespectful, so rude") and Adlai Stevenson ("he had been my political hero, and then, after the interview, well...
...with trying to figure out what saved him-the massive transfu sions, the great quantities of Blomback Fraction, or the brief dose of psychiatry. Whatever the vital treatment was, says Dr. Hill, "the first and most important thing we learned in this case is that no hemophilia is ever hopeless...
...stumps and whose feet are attached to his buttocks, reached for a ball with his new, artificial arm. "He's never done this before," she marveled. In another room, a four-year-old boy earnestly practiced opening and closing belt buckles. "At first we thought everything was hopeless," said his mother. "Now we see what progress can be made...
...gainly share of her alluring occult quality probably lies in the fact that Mrs. Perkins is English. "And that is, I will say," she says, "a great advantage. I can't telly you how kind people have been, particularly members of the House. If I do something quite hopeless they say, 'Oh, poor thing, she can't help it, she's English,' you see. They are very quick to make excuses, partly because I'm foreign and partly because, I think, people are basically nice and do make excuses...
...general opinion. "He's tough--if we get him in here that will fix things up in short order." Tough men themselves, these miners are convinced Hoffa will understand them and their problem. But a Teamster representative recently studied the situation and reported that it was almost hopeless. The Union has no plans now to intervene...